Creators: Jingyan Guo & Zidong Gao Course: CMN6940 Projects for Professionals The students were tasked with expanding the enrollment of St. Mark’s citizenship and English-language classes to students across the country. With the identified concerns, they researched a target audience for the organization, suggested the use of chatbots, and utilized social media platforms like FaceBook…
Tag: Reflection & Blog Post
Implementing New Communication Strategies at Tiffany’s Recovery Inc.
Creators: Rym Soltani & Jessica Hegarty Course: CMN6940 Projects for Professionals The students were tasked with improving communication with Tiffany’s Recovery Inc.’s stakeholders. They redesigned logos and the website, suggested and drafted the use of a newsletter, and tracked traffic on different social media platforms to be able to make the best suggestions for the…
Student-Elder Interview Reflections
Creator: Annica Kim Course: GRMN2101 Intermediate German I, GRMN2102 Intermediate German 2 Our students had the opportunity to meet with elders living in Germany twice this semester and hold conversations with them to practice their conversational German and to learn more about their partner’s lives. These intercultural meetings aimed to alleviate isolation that many elders…
Rhetorical Analysis: Issues facing Boston Communities
Creators: Bella Lee, Azalea Murray, Nia Simmons Course: ENGW1114 First-Year Writing with Service-Learning The students in first year writing focused on how to utilize writing to speak about and challenge complex problems. In this assignment, students were asked to look at how each of the community partners they’ve been working with this semester fit into…
Conversations with Elderly folks in Germany: Intercultural and intergenerational connections
Creators: The entire class of GRMN 2101 Intermediate German I Course: Intermediate German I This artifact is a screenshot from the end-of-year ‘Large group meeting’ which the elderly folks from the partner organization as well as Northeastern students attended to reflect on their two conversations throughout the semester. Included with the photo are some quotes…
A2Empowerment Blog Posts
Course: INTL 1101 Globalization and International Affairs (Diamanti-Karanou) Students working at A2Empowerment were tasked with creating informative Instagram posts to further the organization’s mission to empower young women and girls. Students used graphic design, writing, and researching skills to create captivating and informative graphics….
Conversations with Elderly folks in Germany: Intercultural and intergenerational connections
Creators: The entire class of GRMN 2102 Intermediate German II Course: Intermediate German II This artifact is a screenshot from the end-of-year ‘Large group meeting’ which the elderly folks from the partner organization as well as Northeastern students attended to reflect on their two conversations throughout the semester. Included with the photo are some quotes…
Reflecting on Service with Hong Lok House
Creator: Emily Chiasson Course: Psychosocial Aspects of Healthcare (Golub-Victor) This reflection provides an overview of both the barriers and benefits that service-learning provides for students. This student reflected on things such as the language barrier, using verbal and non-verbal cues, as well as how service-learning introduced her to a population she had never worked with…
The Impact of a City Walk on Data Analysis
Creator: Emily Brown Course: 5262 Big Data for Cities This memo details how my data analysis for the course Big Data for Cities was impacted by meeting with guest speakers and by going on an exploratory walk of Blue Hill Avenue. Overall, both the city walk and the in-class workshop made me think more deeply…
LGBTQ Community Faces Skewed Media Attention Representation
Creators: Alexis Santoro & Zachary Carmosino Course: Digital Storytelling & Social Media (Bhargava) This project was focused on analyzing how the media covers the issue that The Crossing works on. The students used digital tools to conduct research on the topics of the LGBTQIA+ community and religion. This artifact was chosen in particular because it…